Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Flight B – $1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips and 40-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until the start of Level 10
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Main Event Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: $200 Main Event Satellite (1-in-10)

• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• 1-in-10 will win a seat into $200K GTD WPO Main Event
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 6
• Structure Sheet

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Return to Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  25 of 168

Flight A: 168 Entries; 25 Advanced
Flight B: Friday at 11am
Flight C: Saturday at 11am
Day 2: Sunday at noon

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  25 of 168

Flight A came to an end with 25 players advancing to Day 2 on Sunday at noon. Jack Sumner was off our radar for most of the day but he’s there now after putting together the biggest bag at the end of the night.

Sumner will return to a stack of 564,000 with Fernando Rodriguez not far behind with 534,000. Both have a nice lead over the rest of the field with Michael Beattie’s 397,000 the third biggest stack.

Below you will find the 10 biggest stacks and we will post the entire chip count list as soon as it is available.

Top 10 Flight A stacks:

1. Jack Sumner – 564,000
2. Fernando Rodriguez – 534,000
3. Michael Beattie – 397,000
4. Josh Adkins – 395,000
5. Raminder Singh – 382,000
6. Carlos Loving – 256,000
7. Karl Manouchakian – 243,000
8. Jim Bozzuto – 216,000
9. Ryan Luker – 201,000
10. Matthew Zazaian – 200,000

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 168

With 10 minutes remaining in Level 14, tournament staff paused the clock, a player drew a random number, and the field will play five more hands at each table before bagging up for Day 2.

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 168

The last level is upon us and players are trying to make a run for Day 2. We found two locals spinning up a late stack.

Karl Manouchakian is up to 228,000 late in the day with Filip Khavin two seats to his right with 201,000.

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 168

The last break is complete and they are ready to play through two more levels before booking a seat in Day 2 on Sunday.

The carousel at the top of the counts now has Raminder Singh leading the pack with 426,000. To make things interesting, three of the biggest stacks are seated next to each other with Josh Adkins, Singh, and Fernando Rodriguez occupying seats 1 through 3.

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 168

Tournament staff sent Flight A players on their final break of the day shortly after the field reached five tables. That leaves 35 players trying to make Day 2 with two more levels to go.

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  47 of 168

Josh Adkins was an early leader and now the WPT Champ is the current leader. He picked up more chips when an opponent shoved from the button for 40,500 and he reshipped from the small blind to get a fold from Raminder Singh.

Adkins:
Button:

A big hand in the blinds and Adkins added to his stack after the run out. The hand put him up to 390,000 with Fernando Rodriguez back in second with 374,000.

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining:  58 of 168

If you have any experience with poker in Florida, you know that Raminder Singh can go on a big heater at any time. Seems that’s happening in the last 24 hours.

Singh took home top honors in Event 6 last night to earn his first Tampa guitar trophy and he’s picking up today where he left off. He’s spun his stack up to 275,000 since the dinner break and it seems a good number of those chips came from Josh Adkins who has ~190,000.

“It was a cooler,” Singh commented. “Full house versus a flopped straight.”

$1,700 WPO Main Event (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining:  58 of 168

The number is official; Flight A of the 2020 Winter Poker Open Main Event drew 168 entries to push the prize pool up to $260,400 from the $200,000 guarantee.

A great start to the big game with another flight tomorrow at 11am and another on Saturday at the same time.

Players will work their way through five more levels today with a break in between before survivors bag up for a Day 2 return on Sunday.